Quotes about Eternity
Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.
— Toni Morrison
You know as well as I do that people who die bad don't stay in the ground.
— Toni Morrison
They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever.
— Toni Morrison
Just Imagine. No illness. Ever. No pain. No aging or frailty of any kind. No loss or grief or tears. And obviously no more dying, not even if the stars shattered into motes and the moon disintegrated like a corpse beneath the sea.
— Toni Morrison
Medical and scientific resources are directed toward more life and fitter life and remind us that the desire is for earthbound eternity, rather than eternal afterlife. The implication being that this is all there is.
— Toni Morrison
We are baptized and can have happiness when this life is done.
— Toni Morrison
God isn't amalgamated into His creation. He is not a tree, a river, or a butterfly. Rather than being a part of His creation, God is above and outside of it.
— Tony Evans
He is who He was, and He is also who He will be because the great I Am never steps out of the present tense.
— Tony Evans
Pastor-theologians should not have to choose between a "social" and a "spiritual" gospel, for there is only one gospel (Gal. 1:6—7), "an eternal gospel" that concerns the heavens and the earth (Rev. 14:6). The
— Kevin Vanhoozer
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
— Khalil Gibran
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
— Khalil Gibran
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
— Khalil Gibran